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My dd19 got a new, better paying job and is leaving the book store where she worked the last year and a half. So today was her last day. She answers the phone and the customer asks her to look up a book for him. No problem...gives her the title and ....it's Ezzo.

So she says she stands there looking at it on the computer for a minute and then goes back to the phone. According to her it goes something like this:

dd: 'I'm sorry to make you wait. We do have the book....but I can't say I recommend it'

customer: 'Really?'

dd: 'Yes sir. My mother has been talking about this guy my whole life and he is really not good news.'

customer: 'oh. Someone recommended it to us.'

dd: 'well, even his own children don't have anything to do with him. Parenting decisions are personal and you can decide for youself...we do have it in store.....but I don't recommend it.'

customer: 'ok....thanks'

So ... like mother like daughter. I really liked the 'parenting decisions are personal and you can decide for yourself' bit from my 19yo.

I'm fairly sure when her sister worked there, she hide the Ezzo books.

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